Secondary-school teaching resources
This area of TeacherNet is being developed to provide secondary-school resources and information for secondary-school staff. Follow the links below to access information about the Key Stage 3 and 4 national strategies, teaching resources and downloadable lesson plans. If you would like to suggest content for inclusion, please contact the TeacherNet team.
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Target-setting at Key Stages 2 to 4
Training on the revised curriculum
To allow teachers time to consider the implications and plan for the
revised curriculum, the Secretary of State proposes — as he announced on
10 July — to allow governing bodies in secondary schools to use one
teaching day in 2007-08 for training on the revised curriculum, instead of
teaching pupils.
This plan allows governing bodies to choose a date for that day between January and July 2008. The DCSF recommends that governing bodies should make a decision earlier in the autumn term about their preferred date, and announce it provisionally during autumn 2007.
A governing-body announcement during the autumn about the provisional date would give parents time to plan childcare for the reduction of one day in the school year for pupils and would give staff time to plan the preparatory work for curriculum reform which they will do on that day. Then, if Parliament approves the change, the provisional date can be confirmed in January 2008. This applies to secondary, middle and special schools which deliver Key Stage 3.
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For further details, see the DCSF's letter of 21 September 2007.
- For more information about the proposed day for curriculum-reform planning, contact info@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk.
- For information on the secondary curriculum, visit the QCA's website.
The Primary and Secondary National Strategies Five-year Strategic Plan and 2006/07 Annual Plan can
be downloaded in summary form from the DCSF Standards Site.
For resources relevant to the subject you teach, see the subjects area, which is being expanded to cover every National Curriculum subject.
Last updated: 21 September 2007
